Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pegasus: correct buffer sizes

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:46:15 +0200

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 10:35 +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
> 
> Nearly all Pegasus devices may append the RX status to the end of the
> received  packet.  It is the default setup for the driver.  The
> actual ethernet packet is  4 bytes shorter.  Why and when 'pkt_len -=
> 4' became 'pkt_len -= 8' is again hidden in the mists of time.  There
> might have been a good reason to do so, but multiple reads of the
> datasheet did not point me to any.
> 

Wild guess: (some) devices pass the FCS, perhaps depending on the
configuration?

johannes